How do narratives function? What are the basic elements that combine to create a "good story"? This course will address these and other questions in an effort to provide students interested in reading and writing short fiction, film and theatrical scripts with the fundamental skills necessary for analyzing and creating successful narratives.

This course is an examination of utopian plans in modern architecture and art, including the works of Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, William Morris, Bruno Taut, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, El Lissitzky, Kandinsky, and others.

Experts in literature seek to provide an interpretation of a given discourse. Experts in linguistics seek to provide a theory that explains how that interpretation comes about. For example, a literature expert may ask of a given discourse: who is being addressed, from what point of view and why? On the other hand, a linguist would ask: how is it that we understand that particular individual(s) are being addressed in a certain way?

Modern-Contemporary Dance Technique 4 is an intermediate-level class, which will continue to build on students' previous study of modern dance technique. The studio will be our laboratory for a semester-long exploration of a wide range of modern dance concepts with a focus on sensation, initiation, expansive use of space, connectivity and increasingly complex phrase work. Along the way we will give continued attention to alignment, spatial clarity, breath, increasing range of motion and the development of strength and stamina.

From the 1960s through the 1990s, French philosophy was dominated by the "post-structuralist" philosophers Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Julia Kristeva, and Luce Irigaray. Over the past fifteen years, a new group of French philosophers has come to the fore, philosophers who often challenge post-structuralist conceptions of truth, reality, science, language, and philosophy itself.

This course provides both the "greatest hits" of Russian and Soviet film (including the work of Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, Andrey Tarkovsky, and Nikita Mikhalkov) and many names, movies, and topics that still await appreciation in the West. These less-known gems include the silent achievements of Evgeniy Bauer, the subversive, anti-colonial riches of Sergey Paradjanov, and the dreamlike animation of Yuri Norstein are some of them.

This is the first studio for those students interested in the design fields: architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, and product design. These fields all share a studio based approach to problem solving that is at once spatial, material, conceptual and social. Over the course of the semester, students will be given a series of projects that will introduce visual communication tools such as plans, elevations, and sections, projected drawings and model making.

Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 2 is an advanced-beginning level class, which will establish a foundational experience with modern dance technique. The studio will be our laboratory for this semester-long exploration of a wide range of modern dance concepts with a focus on sensation, initiation, expansive use of space, efficiency, safety, connectivity and the embodiment of phrase work. Along the way we will also bring attention to alignment, spatial clarity, use of breath, increasing range of motion and the development of strength and stamina.

This course introduces some of the major ideas at work in religious traditions throughout the world. It explores how three major themes - The Human Condition, Ultimate Realities, and Religious Truth - are understood in Chinese religion, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. As a whole, this course thus provides a multi-cultural approach to some of the core ideas, texts, and thinkers of the religions practiced by most of the world's population.

An introduction to the archaeology, myth, history, art, literature, and religion of ancient Ireland: 4000 BCE to 1200 CE, from the earliest megalithic monuments to the Norman conquest. Consideration will be given, then, to these distinct periods: Pre-Celtic (Neolithic and Bronze Ages--4000 BCE-700 BCE); Pre-Christian Celtic (Late Bronze & Iron Ages--700 BCE-400 CE); and Early Christian Celtic (Irish Golden Ages and Medieval--700-1200 CE). The emphasis throughout will be on the study of primary material, whether artifacts or documents.